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Other Hunting => Bird Dogs => Topic started by: AspenBud on February 09, 2015, 10:50:44 AM

Title: Dogs that make me reconsider labs
Post by: AspenBud on February 09, 2015, 10:50:44 AM: One tough SOB and some great dogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydT7N_GiEW4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydT7N_GiEW4)
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Post by: jetjockey on February 09, 2015, 11:14:33 AM: Hunting grouse in the UP or Wisconsin is on my bucket list. I think I'd have to buy a new gun though before I exposed mine to the tortures of grouse hunting. Something with some rust, lots of dents, and 26 in barrels would work pretty darn well.
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Post by: WSU on February 09, 2015, 11:24:25 AM: That grouse hunting looks like a blast!
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Post by: ribka on February 09, 2015, 12:21:19 PM: Grew up in N WI and spent many days chasing woodcock and grouse in the woods as a lad with a lab springer mix. The fall colors, smells are incredible up there.

Heading back home this October to hunt
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Post by: NW-GSP on February 09, 2015, 03:08:34 PM: My dad lives in Michigan and hunts grouse and woodcock in the UP, He has two German shorhairs.
in the off season he uses them for locating woodcock chicks so he can band them,
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Post by: Blackjaw on February 10, 2015, 06:39:03 AM: How could you want a lab like that? Those two don't point :chuckle:
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Post by: RadSav on February 10, 2015, 07:06:24 AM: Sure looks like a good time. Though I'm not sure I could get myself to own a lab ;)
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Post by: Happy Gilmore on February 10, 2015, 10:13:44 PM: Hunt a Chessie that handles like a Ferrari at 300 + yards and will whistle sit and wait for a flush or sit to flush at your option. Just takes far more training but the pay off is magical
Title: Re: Dogs that make me reconsider labs
Post by: RadSav on February 10, 2015, 10:19:41 PM: Quote from: Happy Gilmore on February 10, 2015, 10:13:44 PM
Hunt a Chessie that handles like a Ferrari at 300 + yards and will whistle sit and wait for a flush or sit to flush at your option. Just takes far more training but the pay off is magical

A Chessie that minds and is trainable...I'm not buying it :tung: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: RadSav on February 10, 2015, 10:21:57 PM: :o

Do you have one of these?
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Post by: Happy Gilmore on February 10, 2015, 10:58:55 PM: Ask Richard why all the pointer guys go bird less in the last 4 braces but no pointer guys will put money on the picnic table on their dog against mine for how many finds they can clock in 10 minutes. Lol four pointer guys declined putting their dog on the ground. Hahaa. Had 9 live and healthy birds in the crate in 10 minutes while I finished a beer. Hahaa
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Post by: RadSav on February 11, 2015, 03:21:19 AM: Are you sure it's not another breed just dressed up as a chessie? ;)
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Post by: AspenBud on February 11, 2015, 07:41:41 AM: Running a flushing dog on birds is basically like taking a stick and beating on the bushes to see what flies. The training is more sophisticated for flushers but the bird finding is not. Even if they simply bump a bird and never smell it it's a find. If a pointing dog does that it's a problem.

It's not even worth it make a comparison for that reason.

The caveat here is with pointing labs. There was a friendly competition out in MI a few years ago, traditional pointers (shorthairs, setters, Pointers, Brittany, etc) versus pointing labs. The labs cleaned house. The twist on that however is the labs were the best the state had to offer and the traditional pointers were average and not the top dogs. But the result was still eye opening for some.
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Post by: AspenBud on February 11, 2015, 07:42:55 AM: Or put another way, you can catch a lot of fish with bait. But some still prefer to fly fish. I'm comfortable with that.
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Post by: raydog on February 11, 2015, 08:52:29 AM: You guys want to know whats better than a pointing lab or a flushing lab?

A Lab Wearing a sombrero!
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Post by: JJD on February 12, 2015, 03:19:11 PM: Just don't ask him to do anything during see-S-ta time😀
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Post by: Curly on February 12, 2015, 03:42:01 PM: Quote from: raydog on February 11, 2015, 08:52:29 AM
You guys want to know whats better than a pointing lab or a flushing lab?

What did the golden think of the hat? The golden probably thought the lab was crazy, huh? :chuckle:
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Post by: raydog on February 12, 2015, 07:07:07 PM: Quote from: Curly on February 12, 2015, 03:42:01 PM
Quote from: raydog on February 11, 2015, 08:52:29 AM
You guys want to know whats better than a pointing lab or a flushing lab?

What did the golden think of the hat? The golden probably thought the lab was crazy, huh? :chuckle:

He had too much tequila to care what the lab was doing! Jk :chuckle: